7. A view of the main classroom, repainted in 2007 to resemble Victorian era color schemes.
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7. Looking NE in the main classroom area.

MORE HISTORY: Among the students of Hower's era was a D.U. chemistry major named Donald Menzel, who eventually went on to become Director of Harvard College Observatory. Another important alumnus of Chamberlin Observatory was William Herschel Womble, DU class of 1934, A.B. Anthropology, who ultimately left a bequest in 1990 for continued support of astronomy at DU. But for this bequest, astronomy might have ended and the observatory sold...

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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Denver.